transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪntɪlektʃuəl ]
( intellectuals)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Intellectual means involving a person’s ability to think and to understand ideas and information.
High levels of lead could damage the intellectual development of children...
ADJ : ADJ n
• in‧tel‧lec‧tual‧ly
...intellectually satisfying work...
ADV : usu ADV adj / -ed , ADV after v
2.
An intellectual is someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.
...teachers, artists and other intellectuals.
N-COUNT
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Intellectual is also an adjective.
They were very intellectual and witty.
ADJ